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This is all on the level. Hohl has the kids fill out their brackets in ink each March, then takes them home for spring break. After break, he hands them out for the students to mark, then asks the class how it went. That’s when Rebecca held up her hand and said she’d missed two.
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I call bullshit on this story. This is nothing more than a practical joke that has made her famous. According to the story, she filled out the bracket along with all of her classmates. Everybody gave their brackets to the teacher, who kept them over spring break. Then after classes resumed,
he gave everybody back their own brackets so they could score them.
What's more likely: That she beat odds greater than a million to one and got all of those picks right through blind luck, or that she filled out a second bracket the night before and scored it instead of her original bracket?
I hate to by so cynical, but this sounds a hell of a lot like the news report several years ago about an autistic teenager who picked the first two rounds perfectly on CBSsports.com's Bracket Manager web site. The news stories said the odds against that were 13,460,00 to 1.
Then the story
quietly disappeared after people noticed that this particular web site allowed the person running the pool to edit the picks
after the games had been played. The guy running the pool was his brother.